How cPanel Website Hosting Functions
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the contemporary hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Website Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met most web hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage Number One: A dumb domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)
Are you getting perplexed? We positively are!
Negative Aspect Number Two: The same mail folder configuration
The email folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.
Disadvantage No.3: A total lack of domain administration sections
Do we have to cite the utter absence of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...
Drawback No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum three)
How about the demand for an extra login to use the billing, domain and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is using, the avid clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP areas to get familiar with... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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